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Sustained rescue of prefrontal circuit dysfunction by antidepressant-induced spine formation
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Why is ketamine an antidepressant?: A better understanding of the mechanisms underlying the action of antidepressants is urgently needed. Moda-Sava et al. explored a possible mode of action for the drug ketamine, which has recently been shown to help patients recover from depression (see the Perspective by Beyeler). Ketamine rescued behavior in mice that was associated with depression-like phenotypes by selectively reversing stress-induced spine loss and restoring coordinated multicellular ensemble activity in prefrontal microcircuits. The initial induction of ketamine's antidepressant effect on mouse behavior occurred independently of effects on spine formation. Instead, synaptogenesis in the prefrontal region played a critical role in nourishing these effects over time. Interventions aimed at enhancing the survival of restored synapses may thus be useful for sustaining the behavioral effects of fast-acting antidepressants. Science , this issue p. eaat8078 ; see also p. 129
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“Activation of AS-PaRac1 three hours post-treatment did not impact tail suspension test behavior 48 hours post-treatment, which is prior to the onset of spine formation by ketamine 12 hours post-treatment.”
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“Using a chronic (21 day) corticosterone (CORT) exposure model of depression in mice, this study demonstrated that CORT induces dendritic spine elimination in the mPFC which is rescued 24 hours following a single ketamine treatment (10 mg/kg i.p.).”
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“The rapidity and magnitude of ketamine's effects have been attributed to its ability to rapidly reverse neuroplasticity deficits in animal models 3,4,10,34 .”
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“Ketamine and psychedelics modulate cortical neuron function by increasing dendritic spine and synapse density in the PFC (129, 146–149)”
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“Chronic exposure to uncontrollable stress causes loss of spines and dendrites in the prefrontal cortex (PFC), a recently evolved brain region that provides top-down regulation of thought, action, and emotion.”
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“specific deletion of the newly formed spines 24 hours post-treatment via activated synapse-targeting photoactivatable Rac1 (AS-PaRac1), which collapses newly formed spines through light stimulation, reversed the effects of ketamine in the tail suspension test 48 hours post-treatment.”
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“Ketamine restored dendritic spines that were specifically lost during the CORT exposure.”
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“As an example, we discuss the potential for ketamine-which exhibits both rapid plasticity-enhancing effects in animal models 4,10 and rapid clinical effects in human patients 11,12 -to provide a test of the predictions of this integrative model, including simultaneous and correlated reversals of multiple plasticity-related deficits across levels of analysis.”
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“Liston et al. recently used a photoactivatable Rac1 to demonstrate that ketamine-induced spine growth in the PFC was causally related to long-lasting antidepressant effects of the drug in rodents (129).”
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“In both humans and rodents, the antidepressant responses of ketamine appear to last for about 1 week.”
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“With chronic stress exposure, there is architectural loss of mPFC spines and dendrites (Moda-Sava et al., 2019, Radley et al., 2006) that correlates with impaired PFC cognitive functioning (Hains et al., 2009, Hains et al., 2015, Liston et al., 2006).”
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“Computational tools that integrate fMRI and EEG already recover predictive signatures of response and can propose dose and timing schedules aligned to individual network states [14,37,181].”
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“Similarly to observation in MDD, CORT mice showed spine loss in prefrontal microcircuit and altered neuronal brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) signaling and neurogenesis with a reduced progenitor cell proliferation in hippocampal and cortical structures.6,7”
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“Second, another study demonstrated that the induction of antidepressant behavioral effects occurs in vivo independently of (and before) actual spine formation. However, glutamate-induced synaptogenesis in their study played a critical role in sustaining the effects over the subsequent week [80].”
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“Moda-Sava, et al. [145] used longitudinal imaging to demonstrate that the induction of depression-related behavior by chronic stress in mice, simulated by chronic corticosterone (CORT) exposure, correlated with targeted dendritic spine elimination within prefrontal cortex micro-circuits.”
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“while these studies found that ketamine treatment selectively restored spines eliminated during CORT exposure”
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“the authors observed a relationship between the degree to which ketamine was able to restore spines eliminated during CORT exposure and the sustained (2 days -1 week) antidepressant response”
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“Ketamine and other fast-acting antidepressant candidates all produce a rapid restoration of dendritic spine density in the PFC in stressed and unstressed animals with the same rapid time course as its behavioral actions [145, 187, 202, 203], implying the restoration of synaptic and circuit function, too.”
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“Ketamine and other fast-acting antidepressant candidates all produce a rapid restoration of dendritic spine density in the PFC in stressed and unstressed animals with the same rapid time course as its behavioral actions [145, 187, 202, 203], implying the restoration of synaptic and circuit function, too.”
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“Ketamine and other fast-acting antidepressant candidates all produce a rapid restoration of dendritic spine density in the PFC in stressed and unstressed animals with the same rapid time course as its behavioral actions [145, 187, 202, 203], implying the restoration of synaptic and circuit function, too.”
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- Authors
- Moda-Sava, R. N., Murdock, M. H., Parekh, P. K., Fetcho, R. N., Huang, B. S., Huynh, T. N., Witztum, J., Shaver, D. C., Rosenthal, D. L., Alway, E. J., Lopez, K., Meng, Y., Nellissen, L., Grosenick, L., Milner, T. A., Deisseroth, K., Bito, H., Kasai, H., & Liston, C.
- Affiliations
- Weill Cornell Medicine (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Center for Disease Biology and Integrative Medicine, The University of Tokyo (JP)
- Corresponding author
- Moda-Sava, R. N.
- Murdock, M. H.
- Parekh, P. K.
- Liston, C.
- ORCID
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2019-04-12
- Volume
- 364
- Issue
- 6436
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- PMC
- PMC6785189
- OpenAlex
- W2935995671
- Cited by
- 643
- References
- 96
- Citations by year
- 2026: 64 · 2025: 92 · 2024: 91 · 2023: 91 · 2022: 91 · 2021: 96 · 2020: 84 · 2019: 34
- FWCI
- 47.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation
- National Institute of Mental Health (R00 MH097822, R01 MH109685)
- Simons Foundation (429965)
- Whitehall Foundation
- Rita Allen Foundation
- KAKENHI (Grant 17H06312)
- Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology
- Hartwell Foundation
- One Mind Institute
- Klingenstein-Simons Fellowship in Brain Science
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pharmacology (medical) › Treatment of Major Depression
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- depression, antidepressant effects, ketamine, dendritic spine formation, medial prefrontal cortex, postsynaptic neurons
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Antidepressive Agents, Corticosterone, Depressive Disorder, Disease Models, Animal, Escape Reaction, Ketamine, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Neuronal Plasticity, Stress, Psychological, Synapses, Prefrontal Cortex, Dendritic Spines, Mice
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